When You Call, Who is Listening? Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)--the law that the FBI
is trying to turn into a tool for warrantless surveillance of the American
people. Cato Institute. Sacramento Bee. June 19, 1998.

Starr Chamber. Kenneth Starr's alleged unethical actions have direct
parallels in actions implemented by White House or the Clinton Department of
Justice. National Review. May 4, 1998.

Joel
Esquenzi and Carlos Rodriguez v. United States of America. Washington Legal Foundation and the Independence Institute amicus brief in support of petitioners.
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Sept. 11, 2014.

Photo illustrating story clouds issue. Brown cloud not the
result of CO2 emissions. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Oct. 6, 2007.
Plus more global warming coverage, the Coors-Miller merger, the
Udall-Schaffer race, and public opinion on the death penalty.

NPR on Alito and Machine
Guns: The November 11, 2005, edition of NPR's "All Things Considered"
features a segment on Judge Alito's decision in Rybar, in which Alito followed the Supreme
Court's Lopez precedent to write that a federal ban on machine gun
possession was not a valid exercise of the federal power to regulate interstate
commerce. Guests on the program were Eugene Volokh, Kristin Rand of the Violence
Policy Center, Erwin Chemerinsky of Duke Law School, and Kopel.

Wasted.
Can’t the DEA or Congress find a better way to use the DEA’s resources?
Medical marijuana raids in California. National Review Online,
Nov. 19, 2001. With Mike Krause.

Sex and the Interstate Commerce Clause. Why the Fourth Circuit Court of
Appeals was right to declare the federal Violence Against Women Act
unconstitutional. Cato Institute. March 13, 1999. With Glenn Harlan Reynolds.

Joel
Esquenzi and Carlos Rodriguez v. United States of America. Washington Legal Foundation and the Independence Institute amicus brief in support of petitioners.
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Sept. 11, 2014.

The
Evolving Police Power: Some Observations for a New Century,
with Glenn Harlan Reynolds. 27 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 511 (2000). Analyzes recent state court decisions striking down anti-sodomy
laws, and suggests that courts in the 21st century—like courts in the 19th
century—may increasingly recognize that the police power is not infinite. Also
available in Word format.

Crime:
The Inner City Crisis. The crime disaster in urban America,
and how politicians use gun control to evade the difficulties of addressing the
causes of poverty, alienation, and hopelessness.

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